Speech Acts In The History Of English

Author : Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027254206

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Speech Acts in the History of English by Andreas H. Jucker,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

Did earlier speakers of English use the same speech acts that we use today? Did they use them in the same way? How did they signal speech act values and how did they negotiate them in case of uncertainty? These are some of the questions that are addressed in this volume in innovative case studies that cover a wide range of speech acts from Old English to Present-day English. All the studies offer careful discussions of methodological and theoretical issues as well as detailed descriptions of specific speech acts. The first part of the volume is devoted to directives and commissives, i.e. speech acts such as requests, commands and promises. The second part is devoted to expressives and assertives and deals with speech acts such as greetings, compliments and apologies. The third part, finally, contains technical reports that deal primarily with the problem of extracting speech acts from historical corpora.

Author : Bettelou Los,Chris Cummins,Lisa Gotthard,Alpo Honkapohja,Benjamin Molineaux
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027258199

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English Historical Linguistics by Bettelou Los,Chris Cummins,Lisa Gotthard,Alpo Honkapohja,Benjamin Molineaux Pdf

This volume drawn from the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL, Edinburgh 2018) focuses on the role of language contact in the history of English. It showcases a wide variety of historical linguistic approaches, including ‘big data’ analyses of large corpora, dialectological methods, and the study of translated texts. It also breaks new ground by applying relevant insights from other fields, among them postcolonial linguistics and anthropology. This pluralistic approach brings new and under-studied issues within the scope of explanation, and challenges some long-held assumptions about the nature of historical change in English. The volume will be of interest to an audience interested in the history of English, and the impact of its contact with Viking Age Norse, Old French, and Latin.

Author : Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computational linguistics
ISBN : 3823358804

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Text Types and Corpora by Andreas Fischer,Gunnel Tottie,Hans Martin Lehmann Pdf

Author : Lorena Pérez-Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108476324

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Speech Acts in English by Lorena Pérez-Hernández Pdf

This book merges theory and practical activities to show how research on speech acts can be implemented in EFL teaching.

Author : Karin Aijmer,Christoph Rühlemann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107015043

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Corpus Pragmatics by Karin Aijmer,Christoph Rühlemann Pdf

The first handbook to survey and expand the burgeoning field of corpus pragmatics, the intersection of pragmatics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Laurel Brinton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009322928

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Pragmatics in the History of English by Laurel Brinton Pdf

A state-of-the-art overview of English historical pragmatics, covering topics such as speech representation, politeness, and address terms.

Author : Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Irma Taavitsainen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110197822

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Methods in Historical Pragmatics by Susan M. Fitzmaurice,Irma Taavitsainen Pdf

This volume represents a timely collective review and assessment of what it is we do when we do English historical pragmatics or historical discourse analysis. The context for the volume is a critical assessment of the assumptions and practices defining the body of research conducted on the history of the English language from the perspective of historical pragmatics, broadly construed. The aim of the volume is to engage with matters of approach and method from different perspectives; accordingly, the contributions offer insights into earlier communicative practices, registers, and linguistic functions as gleaned from historical discourse. The essays are grouped according to their orientations within the scope of the study of language and meaning in historical texts, both literary and non-literary. The structure of the volume thus represents a critical convergence of traditions of reading texts and analyzing discourse and this in turn exposes key questions about the methods and the outcomes of such readings or analyses. The volume contributes to the growing maturity of historical pragmatic research approaches as it exemplifies and extends the range of approaches and methods that dominate the research enterprise. Contributors are prominent international scholars in the fields of linguistics, literature, and philology: Dawn Archer, Birte Bös, Laurel Brinton, Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti, James Fitzmaurice, Susan Fitzmaurice, Monika Fludernik, Andreas Jucker, Thomas Kohnen, Ursula Lenker, Lynne Magnusson, and Irma Taavitsainen.

Author : Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190611057

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Approaches to Teaching the History of the English Language by Mary Hayes,Allison Paige Burkette Pdf

"First Edition published in Paperback 2001."

Author : Andreas Jucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108499620

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Politeness in the History of English by Andreas Jucker Pdf

From the Middle Ages up to the present day, this book traces politeness in the history of the English language.

Author : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1168 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110251609

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English Historical Linguistics. Volume 2 by Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton Pdf

Author : Ulrich Busse,Axel Hübler
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027274618

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Investigations into the Meta-Communicative Lexicon of English by Ulrich Busse,Axel Hübler Pdf

The volume contributes to historical pragmatics an important chapter on what has so far not been paid adequate attention to, i.e. historical metapragmatics. More particularly, the collected papers apply a meta-communicative approach to historical texts by focusing on lexis that either directly or metaphorically identifies or characterizes entire forms of communication or single acts and act sequences or minor units. Within the context of their use, such lexical expressions, in fact, provide a key for disclosing historical forms of communication; taken out of context, they build the meta-communicative lexicon. The articles follow three principal distinctions in that they investigate the meta-communicative profile of genres, meta-communicative lexical sets and meta-communicative ethics and ideologies. They cover a broad spectrum of text types that span the entire history of the English language from Anglo-Saxon chronicles to computer-mediated communication.

Author : John Searle,F. Kiefer,M. Bierwisch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789400989641

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Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics by John Searle,F. Kiefer,M. Bierwisch Pdf

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind the use of the two terms "speech acts" and "pragmatics". The notion of a speech act is fairly well understood. The theory of speech acts starts with the assumption that the minimal unit of human communica tion is not a sentence or other expression, but rather the performance of certain kinds of acts, such as making statements, asking questions, giving orders, describing, explaining, apologizing, thanking, congratulating, etc. Characteristically, a speaker performs one or more of these acts by uttering a sentence or sentences; but the act itself is not to be confused with a sentence or other expression uttered in its performance. Such types of acts as those exemplified above are called, following Austin, illocutionary acts, and they are standardly contrasted in the literature with certain other types of acts such as perlocutionary acts and propositional acts. Perlocutionary acts have to do with those effects which our utterances have on hearers which go beyond the hearer's understanding of the utterance. Such acts as convincing, persuading, annoying, amusing, and frightening are all cases of perlocutionary acts.

Author : Thomas Kohnen
Publisher : Textbooks in English Language and Linguistics (TELL)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 3631560044

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Introduction to the History of English by Thomas Kohnen Pdf

This introduction to the history of English includes chapters on language change, the Indo-European background of English, and on Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and Late Modern English. It offers information about the socio-historical background, the core areas of linguistic structure, discourse, speech acts and genres.

Author : Lilo Moessner
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
ISBN : 9781474438018

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History of the Present English Subjunctive by Lilo Moessner Pdf

Locating the subjunctive at the interface of mood and modality, this book presents a systematic description of the use of the English subjunctive in main clauses, noun clauses, relative clauses, and adverbial clauses. It explores the factors which governed its competition with other verbal expressions in texts ranging from the 9th to the beginning of the 18th century. Employing close reading alongside analysis of corpus data and the use of descriptive statistics, it offers new insights into the research landscape of English subjunctive use and into the fields of historical English linguistics and corpus linguistics.

Author : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 983 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190627881

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of English by Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste),Elizabeth Closs Traugott Pdf

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.